Sanai

Sanai, whose full name was Hakim Abul-Majd Majdud ibn Adam Sanai Ghaznavi, was an Iranian Sufi poet and mystic from Ghazni who lived in the late eleventh and early twelfth century and was connected with the court of Bahram Shah. He is best known for The Walled Garden of Truth, or Hadiqat al-Haqiqa, regarded as the first Persian mystical epic of Sufism, and for his collected Divan. He is counted among the pioneers of Persian Sufi poetry and was among the first to use the qasida, ghazal and masnavi to express Sufi ideas about God, love, reason and ethics. Rumi named him with Attar as a great inspiration, and his Walled Garden of Truth served as a model for Nizami Ganjavi when he wrote the Treasury of Secrets.